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Needs moar plugins.

It can be all too easy to get carried away with plugins and software sometimes, There is a incredible amount of amazing audio software available, and a lot of high quality plugins and software is available as freeware.

After a while, and trying hundreds or thousands of plugins, you start to become very familiar with the common functions and controls of them all. And you also start to realize that everything that you really need, (and most of what you want) was right there in your DAW in the first place.

Filtered noise sweep tutorial.

In this tutorial we are going to make a ‘sweep’ or that wooshing sweeping noise you sometimes hear for a transition or FX in a track. We will use the FLStudio plugin 3xOsc for the noise generator (oscillators set to generate white noise only.) Also we will automate the frequency of a bandpass filter inside 3xOsc.

Here is an audio example rendered straight from the included project file to an .mp3

Okay, here we go… First, open a new project in FL Studio and add a 3xOsc.

Now we’ll send it to it’s own insert on the mixer.

This step is not actually necessary for this simple tutorial but it’s advised to do so so that you can add further control FX to the sound later. (eg, a delay plugin is a good one to use on this sound, in FLStudio try adding FL Delay2.) And now you can use the mixer fader to individually adjust the level of your sweep in your mix.

We’ll need to play a long note which will sustain for the length of the entire transition.

Add a note to be played on the step sequencer. (Or skip this and just draw one into the PianoRoll, similar to the next step which, extending our note length)

Right Click and send it to the PianoRoll.

Set your note length. The example one is eight bars long.Now we will choose the filter settings. On your 3xOsc click the INS tab. In the filter section, choose BP (BandPass) and adjust the knob positions like in the picture. The MODX knob sets the frequency of the filter, and MODY sets the width of the filter. (Q)

Now to create the motion we will link the MODX (Filter frequency) knob to an automation clip. Right click on the MODX knob and choose ‘Create Automation Clip’

You can see that we’ve added the Automation clip here, on the Step sequencer window:

And we can also see the automation clip has been added to the playlist:Currently it’s only bar long as we don’t have any patterns on the playlist. First, add pattern one to the playlist. Now that you can see it and it’s length, grab the right hand point on the automation clip, dragging it to the right until it’s length matches the length of our sustained note we drew earlier.

That’s it for this tutorial, press play and listen to your results or maybe render it to an audio file for future use.

You can use this concept in most any other DAW with automation of course. The basic idea is the same no matter what you use: Automate a filter’s settings to move over time to create a ‘moving’ sound. Try experimenting with different types of filters, (LP BP etc.) and also you can obviously sweep up, down, or any more complex automations you like the sound of.

Sytrus Skin Mod 1.2 – Easier to read, Color-coded.

A new skin for Image-Line’sSytrus synthesizer plugin. Color coded panels and labels for better visual clarity and more definition. The text has been given higher contrast. The colors have been modified. There is a greater range of colors too: overall it’s much. more colorful.

Each different section and tab in the synthesizer plugin has been given a different and related color. This should make it easier to learn for beginners, and clearer in general even if you’ve used Sytrus for years.

Pictures of each screen are as follows, so that you can see if you want to download it or not:

To use this skin-mod you will have to replace your original Sytrus artwork so be sure to backup the folder first before you overwrite it with the new ones, in case you want to replace the old skin later on.